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Title: Ornithologist and oölogist
Year: 1881 (1880s)
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Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: Pawtucket, Rhode Island : (s.n.)
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. 1.—Shows bird partly skinned.A.—End of breast bone.B.—Vent. C and D.—Leg bones, second joint from foot.U—U.—End of same bones.E and F.—-Wing bones—body joints.G.—Base of bill.H.—Ear. V.—End of Vertebra.Fig. 2.—Shows leg.C, D to U.—Bone that is left in skin.Pig. 3.—Shows tail.B—B.—Place to sever vertebra.V.—End of vertebra and socket of the quillsof the tail feathers.Fig. 4.—Shows wings. E to W.—Bone that is cleaned and left in skin. W to X.—Two bones, cleaned and left in wing. Fig. 5.—Shows skull. G.—Base of bill. H—H.—Ear holes. K—K.—Place to cut skull. H—H to G.—Part of skull left in skin. Fig. 5a.—Side view of same. K—K.—Same cut as in Fig. 5. Fig. 6.—Wing bones, E and F to W. (See Fig.4.) This shows them tied. Use thread for smallbirds. The old story of the school boy who made adrawing ana wrote the necessary description,this is a cow, has a moral which .should be dulyconsidered by many us. Dec. 1885.) AND OOLOGIST.
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188 ORNITHOLOGIST (Vol. 10-No. 12 from W to X (Fig. 4,); clean the bone E to W,and cut away what you can of the meat from Wto X. It is not uccessar3 to take every particleof meat. I leave the cords, they help to hold thewing firmly when dry. Be sure the poison iswell applied at the proper time. Repeat this inlike manner with the other wing, F to W and Wto X. Many skin the wing from W to the tipbeyond X. This can be done by starting theskin by pressing firmly at the point W, sidetowards the quills. When it starts it can easilybe skinned the rest of the way. I do not as arule do this; it sometimes displaces the wingfeathers so that it takes time to make themsmooth. In large birds I only clean the bonetu W, and after the bird is all skinned and turnedback, I open the wing on the outside under partfrom W to X, remove meat, poison and sew upthe cut. The skinning is now completed. Poison bybrushing dry preservative over all the parts (fleshside) with the rabbits foot. For large birds usears

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